[osdn business] December 07, 2002

[0]dave writes "Recently, cities such as New York and elsewhere have
been installing radiation detectors in subways as an anti-terror precaution. However, as reported in [1]New Scientist, patients who are undergoing radiation treatment are [2]setting off the alarms. From the article, "a 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations.""
Links

    0. 
http://www.whichwayup.org
    1. 
http://www.newscientist.com/
    2. 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993150

The Great Stanford Buffy Population Equilibrium Study http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/2051214

[0]Suture writes "A PhD candidate in ecology at Stanford University has
done an [1]ecological analysis of humans and vampires in Sunnydale, the home of [2]Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He took some initial assumptions on rates of population growth, vampire feeding, etc and plugged them into a differential equations model. What he got was an equilibrium human population of 36,346, and an vampire population of around 18, and furthermore the equilibrium is stable. His conclusion was that even though the show's designers are not ecologists, they managed to come up with ideas that actually made ecological sense. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a pretty cool spiral graph of human population vs vampire population."
Links

    0. 
http://www.chaosproject.com
    1. 
http://www.stanford.edu/~bthomas/vamp/vampecology.htm
    2. 
http://www.buffy.com/

SmartEiffel 1.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1812216

[0]Per Wigren writes "Today [1]SmartEiffel, the GNU Eiffel-compiler
finally reached 1.0! Eiffel is a very underrated language in the free software community for some strange reason.. Hopefully this will help to gain some interest in this extremely powerful, fast, easy-to-read, easy-to-learn, almost self-debugging language!" Links

0. mailto:wigren@open-source.nu

http://smarteiffel.loria.fr/

The World's Largest Scavenger Hunt
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1730248

[0]illuminatedwax writes "Every spring, University of Chicago students
attempt to cast off their bookish tendencies and hold the [1]world's largest scavenger hunt. Now, the event has been filmed by the student film group, [2]Fire Escape, as a documentary, and is being sold on DVD and VHS from [3]Periphrastic Films. The film follows the various teams and their effort to procure the off-the-wall 300+ items. For those who haven't heard of the University of Chicago Scav Hunt, its biggest claim to fame is from the 1999 hunt, when [4] students built a working breeder reactor. Items during the 2002 Scav Hunt featured in the film include "Passports stamped by all three axes of evil", building "terrorist base camps" on the University quads, and students competing in a game show-style contest, featuring a DDR contest, and trivia like "Digits of Pi" and "Taylor Series." [5]The Scav Hunt lists can be found here, and [6] the 2002 list here."
Links

    0. mailto:stdrange@uchicBOHRago.edu minus physicist
    1. 
http://scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/
    2. 
http://fireescape.uchicago.edu/
    3. 
http://www.periphrastic.com/
    4. 
http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-page.html?res=9A0DEEDB133EF93AA25756C0A96F958260
    5. 
http://scavhunt1.uchicago.edu/Hunt02/lists.html
    6. 
http://mariokart64.uchicago.edu/scavhunt02/node2.html

0. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,746233,00.asp

Trident XP4 Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1631203

ceebABC writes "In a [0]new review, the Trident XP4 got a nasty reception. Based on the tests, it sounds like Trident has got some work to do on the thing. Looks like this GPU is dead on arrival." Our last story on Trident mentioned them [1]coming back from the dead. Maybe not.
Links

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/07/1325208&tid=152

Mac vs. PC: Digital Video Editing Comparison http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/165223

[0]mnemonic writes "[1]DigitalVideoEditing.com has posted its third
[2]Mac vs. PC comparison, dealing with performance in After Effects and
Photoshop, graphics applications one might expect the Mac to be significantly faster in. It should be noted that the author, Charlie White, is a long-time PC supporter and disliker of Macs, though, as he shows, this preference is for as legitimate reasons as the ones devoted Mac users cite to disparage PC's. [3]Ace's Hardware has another
[4]comparison that goes further in depth into the specifics of the G4,
P4 and Athlon processors. As when comparing any two pieces of hardware, it's important to think not only of the relationship between performance and specification, but performance and price." Links

    0. mailto:xmnemonic@softhome.net
    1. 
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/
    2. 
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/11_nov/reviews/cw_macvspciiihtm
    3. 
http://www.aceshardware.com/
    4. 
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000333

Advances in Decentralized Peer Networks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1527214

[0]PureFiction writes "Peer networks are gaining some [1]attention
    these days given advances in much more [2]decentralized [3]search
[4]architectures and [5]swarming [6]distribution [7]networks. Research
    has indicated that these decentralized networks are resistant to
[8]legal and [9]technological attacks. The continued proliferation of
[10]broadband and [11]wireless networking will ensure [12]pervasive
    deployment of distributed [13]peer networking infrastructure that will     drive significant innovations in [14]personal and [15]community digital     communications services."
Links

    0. mailto:coderman@mindspring.com
    1. 
http://www.infoanarchy.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/11/22/12542/414
    2. 
http://cubicmetercrystal.com/alpine/
    3. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/files/Proposals/GUESS/
    4. 
http://www.neurogrid.net/Decentralized_Meta-Data_Strategies-neat.html
    5. 
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
    6. 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/swarmcast/
    7. 
http://mnet.sourceforge.net/
    8. 
http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/Napster/20010227_p2p_copyright_white_paperhtml
    9. 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993037
   10. 
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358634&rel=true
   11. 
http://cubicmetercrystal.com/ptpvan/
   12. 
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/grid/
   13. 
http://www.jxta.org/
   14. 
http://www.personaltelco.net/
   15. 
http://www.seattlewireless.net/

Newsforge Reports
TheOpenCD First Edition Launch
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/2018253

By Henrik Nilsen Omma and Will Martin - TheOpenCD project started with two articles on NewsForge in April of this year. The idea was to make a compilation of mature open source software (OSS) for windows users as an easy introduction to OSS. The project was inspired by a question which is frequently asked in Linux forums: "Given that we now have this fast, secure, desktop-ready, free OS, why doesn't everyone switch?"

Linux Advisory Watch - December 6th 2002 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1617238

By Benjamin D. Thomas -This week, advisories were released for RPC XDR, ypserv, pine, freeswan, im, smb2www, xinetd, webalizer, kde, kdelibs, and windowmaker.  The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Red Hat.

Some thoughts on the future of 'geek lobbying' http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/0241253

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller -This is a cynical but realistic view of the U.S. regulatory and lawmaking process that will make you sad -- and will show you why "Geek Activism" projects must be ongoing efforts if they are going to succeed. I'm sure things are similar in other countries, but I know the U.S. system best so that's the one I'll talk about here.

Newsforge Newsvac
Call for Papers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/215252

The Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute (CSPRI) of The George Washington University, UNDP, GSA, DISA, NAVY Office of the CIO, The Danish National IT and Telecom Agency are proud to present a conference on "Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU" to be held in Washington, DC, USA, March 17 - 19, 2003.

IDC Says PC Market Ready to Rebound
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/2034211

The growth of wireless and broadband networks will increase the demand for PCs in 2003 and 2004, researcher says.

IBM releases XML Parser for Java v4.1.2 performance http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/2025218

Don't know where to look next?

Anonymous Reader writes "Version 4.1.2: Performance enhancements are the highlight of the new release of XML Parser for Java, a validating XML parser and processor written in 100% pure Java; it is a library for parsing and generating XML documents.

Sun Seeks To Change Its Spots
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/2022253

As big-ticket technology solutions face increasing scrutiny from cash-strapped IT departments, Sun Microsystems finds it must change with the times. Can it succeed?

NTA joins Open Source Software Institute http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1659256

The National Technology Alliance (NTA) has partnered with the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) as part of an NTA Open Source Program. The NTA Open Source Program is dedicated to the development and implementation of open source technology for use within the U. S. Government.

IBM Acquires Rational
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1627221

In a surprise move, IBM agreed to acquire Rational Software Corp. Friday in a deal worth $2.1 billion. IBM officials said the acquisition of the major development toolmaker would be the biggest for IBM since the computer giant acquired Lotus Development Corp.

Hackers Want Their Prize Money
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1425226

A Polish hacker group that won almost $50 grand in a hacking contest last year wants the company that sponsored it to cough up the prize. Trouble is, the sponsor company no longer exists.

Testimony on Tape in E-Book Trial
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1424258

He sits in the courtroom but federal prosecutors show a videotaped deposition by Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov as they build a case against his employer, ElcomSoft, for selling software that cracks e-book security..

Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1424239

Speaking at an 802.11 conference, experts who participated in government-sponsored working groups to examine Wi-Fi's security holes say the message is clear: Secure your wireless networks or face federal meddling.

Did Microsoft kneecap Java, judge asks
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1424213

Tonya Harding school of business.

Freshmeat
23 Ounces Of Glass GTK 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105651/

Confused? Frustrated?

23 Ounces Of Glass GTK is a GTK theme for the Enlightenment theme of the same name.

Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105701/

Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile (with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.

AJ's Internet Cafe for LTSP 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105710/

AJ's Internet cafe is a full featured and complete open-source internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.

Alfandega Firewall 1.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105672/

Alfandega Firewall is a collection of Perl modules that helps users to implement iptables-based firewalls for two interfaces. It provides local and remote blacklists, spoofing checks, packet forwarding, ICMP control, service configuration, and more.

AUC TeX 11.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105684/

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AUC TeX is a much-enhanced (La)TeX environment for Emacs.

autopackage 0.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105680/

autopackage is a package manager for Linux that is intended to sort out RPM hell by making it much easier to create distribution-neutral packages that can be downloaded and run, a la InstallShield. It has several advantages over both the RPM approach and the Windows installer-stub system. Although the packages are "smart" and can adapt to the computer on which they are installing, there is minimal overhead involved on the package itself. Using autopackage, you can create .package files and link them to the autopackage network for easy installation using a distributed apt-style system. These packages also have many other powerful features not found in other systems.

BackUp Tool v0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105677/

BackUp Tool archives specified projects by copying them into a backup directory if the MD5 checksums of the files have changed. It can be executed periodically using cron.

beltane 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105690/

Beltane is a Web-based central management console for the samhain file integrity system. If samhain is used in a client/server setup, beltane enables the administrator to browse client reports, acknowledge them, and update file signature databases stored centrally on the log server.

Blassic 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105728/

Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.

bonnie++ 1.03 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105705/

Bonnie++ is based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray. The most notable features that have been added are support for >2G of storage and testing operations involving thousands of files in a directory. This program is used by ReiserFS developers, but can be useful for anyone who wants to know how fast her hard drive or file system is. It now includes ZCAV in the package. This program tests the performance of different zones on the hard drive. ZCAV has been released separately before but will now only be released as part of the Bonnie++ suite.

Cocoon 2.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105711/

Apache Cocoon is an XML publishing framework. Cocoon offers a flexible environment based on the separation of concerns between content, logic, and style. A centralized configuration system and sophisticated caching help you to create, deploy, and maintain rock-solid XML server applications. Cocoon interacts with most data sources, including filesystems, RDBMS, LDAP, and native XML databases. It adapts content delivery to many different formats, such as HTML, WML, PDF, SVG, and RTF. Cocoon currently runs as a Servlet or from a powerful command-line interface.

ERW 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105739/

ERW (Entities and Relationships on the Web) is an innovative system for handling complex databases using a Web browser. It uses the most recent standards endorsed by the W3C to offer to the user a sophisticated environment, similar to a dedicated client. Moreover, the user interface is generated in a completely automatic way starting from a conceptual description of the database by means of an XML-based description language for entity-relationship schemata. From the same description, you can also automatically obtain diagrams and documentation. ERW can be used for content management, in particular when the data is structured along complex relations.

fortune-discworld 2002-12-06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105722/

fortune-discworld is a collection of quotes from the "Discworld" novels by Terry Pratchett for use with the fortune program.

FOX 1.1.21 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105719/

FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.

Free Bangla Fonts 0.8.0 (Ani)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105737/

The Free Bangla Fonts project is a volunteer run project dedicated for creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial aim of this project is to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts).

GNU Smalltalk 2.0f (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105717/

GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.

GNU SpaceChart 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105735/

GNU SpaceChart is a GNOME application that shows the stars in space in 3D. It allows the user to rotate them, select which stars are shown, and draw lines between stars that are closer than a given distance.

Goggles 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105714/

Goggles is a GUI frontend for the Ogle DVD player that was written using FOX.

grafist 1.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105716/

Grafist is a bandwidth utilization viewer. It gets the bandwidth utilization information for network interfaces from the /proc/net/dev file in 15-second periods, and stores it in four data files (daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly). When a request is sent to index.php, it executes four programs to create graphics (using the GD library) and a summary for each file. Grafist provides internationalization support for 14 languages.

Gringotts 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105685/

Gringotts is a small utility that allows you to jot down sensitive data (passwords, PINs, small files, etc.) in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access, and most of all very secure form. Gringotts makes use of GTK+ 2 for the user interface, and lets the user choose from among eight strong encryption algorithms (RIJNDAEL-128, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, TWOFISH, CAST-256, SAFER+, LOKI97, 3DES), two hashing algorithms (SHA1, RIPEMD 160) and two compression techniques (ZLib and BZip2) with four compression ratios. Moreover, it allows the user to use any file or an entire floppy disk as a password, as an alternative to the usual text string, giving additional choices.

Grutatxt 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105687/

Don't know where to look next?

Grutatxt is a plain text to HTML converter. It successfully converts subtle text markup to lists, bold, italics, tables, and headings to their corresponding HTML tags without having to write unreadable source text files.

kcd 6.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105691/

kcd is a directory change utility similar to NCD. It helps you navigate the directory tree. You can also supply part of the desired directory name in the command line and let kcd find it for you.

LilyPond 1.6.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105730/

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Luola 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105681/

Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.

MasqMail 0.2.18 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105720/

MasqMail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed for hosts that are not permanently connected to the Internet. It handles outgoing messages specially and delivers them only when explicitely told to do so in the ip-up script. It can also retrieve mail via pop3. It has support for multiple providers. When offline, it behaves like any MTA (like, for example, sendmail, though it's not as powerful as sendmail).

ME45sync beta-0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105689/

ME45sync is software to manage a Siemens ME45/S45/*45 telephone.

mkrdns 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105727/

mkrdns is a small Perl script that helps automate changes to your DNS zone files. It does this by reading your named.boot/named.conf file to find all the domains/networks for which you are authoritative. It then reads all of the forward zone files and generates PTR records which it inserts in the reverse zone maps.

Moonbeam 0.21 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105683/

Moonbeam is an XML socket server written in Java. It is targeted at building multi-user applications such as chat rooms, games, and instant messengers.

MoreQt 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105229/

Confused? Frustrated?

MoreQt extends the Qt library, providing a range control on floating-point values instead of integers and associated widgets, a line edit that "waits" for user validation (using a timer, the focus loss, or Enter-key press), and a units (length, temperatures, etc.) management system, including conversion between units, freely expandable at runtime and used by an extended line editor.

MOSIX Kernel Patch 1.9.0 for Linux 2.4.20 (Linux 2.4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/105708/

MOSIX is a unique clustering package that can make any size Linux cluster of x86 nodes (workstations and servers) run almost like a single system with multiple processors. The core of MOSIX contains adaptive management algorithms that monitor and respond to uneven resource distribution among the nodes by preemptive process migration. In addition to automatic load-balancing, MOSIX supports massive parallel I/O by partitioning the data of a file to several nodes so that parallel processes will migrate to the node which has their portion of the data. The algorithms of MOSIX are geared toward maximal performance, overhead-free scalability, and ease-of-use.

NMM 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105733/

NMM is a multimedia middleware package that allows you to develop all kinds of multimedia processing applications. A number of plug-ins supporting various media-types, operations, and I/O devices are included. The Multimedia-Box application built on top of NMM provides an extensible home entertainment system for DVD and CD playback, TV with time-shifting, and MP3 playback and encoding.

OpenComal 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105702/

OpenComal is a free implementation of the Comal programming language. Currently supported platforms are Linux, MS-DOS, and Win32.

openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105707/

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openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware. openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI, Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance.

OSCAR Cluster 2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105709/

OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy- to-install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing.

Pancho 9.0.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105712/

Pancho is a utility that allows network administrators to make changes to the configuration for a single node or group of nodes through SNMP and TFTP. It also provides archiving functionality by allowing you to copy the device configurations to a remote server through a scheduled cron or at job.

Penetrator 3.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105688/

Penetrator is a tool for indexing big trees of text files, as your local HTML documentation or home directory. It's able to use DBM files or DBI databases and be used as a command line tool or a CGI. The files to be indexed can be selected by extension or using external file identifying programs as /usr/bin/file.

PHP iCalendar 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105674/

PHP iCalendar is a PHP-based iCal file parser. It is based on v2.0 of the IETF spec. It displays iCal files in a nice logical, clean manner with day, week, month, and year navigation. It supports 13 languages, provides RSS news feeds, and is fully searchable and themable.

PHP LDBI 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105725/

PHP LDBI is a library to handle local databases. It supports tables, sequences, indices, and searches using wildcards. It's primary goal is to serve as backend for SQL interfaces to local databases. It includes an SQL parser to execute simple SQL statements.

phpOpenTracker 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105698/

phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths).

PostgreSQL IPv6 Patch 20021205
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105713/

The PostgreSQL IPv6 Patch is an effort to create a fully IPv6-compatible PostgreSQL server, including porting all IPv4 types to IPv6.

Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.6.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/105706/

The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.

samhain 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105694/

samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.

SCons 0.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105729/

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel builds and is easily extensible through user-defined builder and scanner objects.

Senken 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105703/

Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.

SILC 0.9.10 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105721/

SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet over insecure channels. SILC superficially resembles IRC, although they are very different internally. The purpose of SILC is to provide secure conferencing services. Strong cryptographic methods are used to secure all traffic, and all messages are encrypted and authenticated. The SILC also supports secure file transferring. The SILC is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.

SimpleAIM 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105686/

SimpleAIM is a miniature console-based AIM client written in pure Java. It implements the TOC protocol and provides a solid framework for understanding and writing your own IM clients or bots.

Slackware-theme Final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105715/

Slackware-theme is an orange-blue Slackware theme.

SMTP map 0.8BETA195 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105623/

SMTP map uses a fingerprinting technology to scan for the version of whatever SMTP server software which is running on a machine.

Stranger Than Paradise 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105664/

Don't know where to look next?

Stranger Than Paradise is a minimalist theme inspired by the Jim Jarmusch film "Stranger Than Paradise" and based on Blackbox's original theme, "Minimal".

Sweep 0.5.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105679/

Sweep is an audio editor and live playback tool. It supports many music and voice formats including WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, and MP3, with multichannel editing and LADSPA effects plugins. Inside lives a pesky little virtual stylus called Scrubby who enjoys mixing around in your files.

UT2003area 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105700/

UT2003area is a set of tools for querying Unreal Tournament 2003 servers and extracting information such as the server configuration and the list of players, just like the in-game server browser. It is meant to be easy to use, fast, reliable, and expandable.

VGATron 0.1beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105693/

VGATron is yet another clone of the well-known game called "Tron". It uses svgalib and is a two-player game.

xdx 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105704/

Xdx is a client to connect to a DX-cluster for amateur radio. DX messages will be displayed in a list, and announcements will go to a text display.

Xpdf 2.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105740/

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) The Xpdf project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and various other utilities. It runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems, and should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. Xpdf is designed to be small and efficient. It can use Type 1, TrueType, or standard X fonts.

Your Operating System 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105678/

YOS is a compact, personalised, and optimised OS with support for RPM, deb, and tgz packages, with 200 packages carefully selected and compiled for speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware detection system, which should detect most modern hardware.

ZynAddSubFX 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/105696/

ZynAddSubFX is a powerful real-time, multi- timbral software synthesizer for Linux. It has microtonal capabilities, and the instruments it creates sound like those from professional keyboards. It includes effects like reverb, echo, chorus, and phaser.

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Cube Fodder: Tangle Desktop Toy
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5a38.shtml

Confused? Frustrated?

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http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a3c.shtml

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http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml

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Gadgets: SoundBug - Turns Glossy Surfaces Into Speakers! http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a15.shtml

Tshirts: It Must Be User Error
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Gadgets: Key Katcher Privacy Device
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a05.shtml

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Gadgets: Mini Wireless Color Video Cam (for RC rovers) http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59eb.shtml

Cube Goodies: Levitron Desktop Levitation Toy http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59a9.shtml

Tshirts: Bug Off, I'm On My Break
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/apparel/5a00.shtml

Watches: onHand PC Watch
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/gadgets/5a1a.shtml

Caffeine: Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/beer.shtml

Gadgets: Desktop Zero Point Infinite Power Generator http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/looflirpa/zero.shtml

Cube Fodder: New Desktop Mini Fridge/Warmer http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/5991.shtml

Mods: New Lian-LIi Cases
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/cases-mods.shtml

Cube Fodder: LED Binary Clock
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59e0.shtml

Cube Fodder: Rogers Connection Magnetic Set http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/fun-stuff/59b4.shtml

Caffeine: Warp Mints In Cinnamon Flavor
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/59de.shtml

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